IQNA

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Kind residents have been donating food packages to organizations helping needy and homeless people, as well as refugees and asylum seekers living in Peterborough, Britain.

A number of donations
have been made by organisations across the city to help residents who are
struggling to afford food through the summer months.

Members of the Hussaini
Islamic Centre in Burton Street, Peterborough, donated a large number of
parcels of food to the Red Cross, located in Priestgate in the city centre.

A spokesman for the
centre said these food packs are for local refugees and asylum seekers as a
part of the holy month of Ramadhan.

The packs contain all
the essential ingredients in preparing food meals of sufficient quantity to
last for each person for up to few weeks.

Raza Husein Rahim,
spokesman for the Islamic Centre said making the donation was an important part
of Ramadan for Muslims in Peterborough.

He said: "Millions of
Muslims worldwide fast during this month of Ramadan for the pleasure of Allah
in exercise of spiritual purification and self-control.

"Fasting includes
abstaining from food and liquids from dawn to dusk. One of the most recommended
acts during the fasting is to give for the pleasure of Allah.

"The Members of Hussaini
Islamic centre in Burton Street Peterborough have contributed towards these
food parcels that will be distributed to the refugees who reside in and around
Peterborough with help of Red Cross.”

The center has also
arranged for a special meal to be held at the end of Ramadan.

And staff at the
Peterborough Soup Kitchen have received a donation of dozens of cakes to be
handed out.

The cakes worth £220 -
were presented to the charity by Shafeel Hussain representing Team Hope from
Islamic Relief.